The sky on October 23, 1968 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 210.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 232.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 195.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 242.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 169.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 175.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 21.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 4% illuminated
astronomy-engine ephemerides (VSOP87/ELP), IAU 1930 constellation boundaries. Positions accurate to a fraction of a degree.
The day’s dossier, from real data
Checkable facts with a tag and a source; the classical reading is in the chart.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
new moon, 4% lit; the Moon was 361,339 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
57.9 orbits of the Sun — 54,460 million km, that is 70,837 return trips to the Moon; 21,166 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 420.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.2 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 343 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the rise to maximum (36% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 12, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — October 23, 2056
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,916″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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